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NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

OLIVER G. ORITCHETT, OF STONEHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM'SELF AND CHARLES O. DIKE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN EYELLL'I'.-iVIACl-lINES.y

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,19l, dated August l2, 1862.

To all whom. it may concern,.- -f

Be it known that I, OLIVER G. CRI'rcHErr,y a citizen of theUnited States of America, and a resident of Stoneham, in the county of MiddleseX and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Eyeleting Shoes or other Articles; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, and 2 al longitudinal section, of my invention. Fig. 3 is a transverse and horizontal section of it.

The object of my invention is to save labor in the introduction of eyelets into a shoe or article preparatory to their being Xed therein by a punch; and the nature of such invention.

consists, first, of a combination consisting not only of mechanism for holding eyelets and feeding them successively forward upon its anvil or its equivalent, but of mechanism for retaining each eyelet on the anvil and subsequently. punching, setting, or compressing the eyelet, 'so as to fix it in an article when placed on the anvil; also, of a combination of an eyelet magazine or holder, a Separator, and a carrier arranged and made t-o operate together and with an eyelet fixing or punching mechanism, substantially as hereinafter described; also, of a combination and arrangement of an eyelet and work receiver or pin with an anvil and an eyelet feeding and'setting mechanism; also, of a combination and arrangement of a guide-rod with the tube or magazine for holding the eyelets.

In the drawings, A denotes the fra-me of the machine,which is provided with a small anvil, y

vertically therein. Thelower part of the punch c contains a slider or pin, b,which rests against a springc,which enables the slider to be forced upward into the punch during the depression of the latterupon an eyelet, in order to compress it on lthe anvil andinto a shoe or article 'having an eyelet-hole placed on the receiver a.

AIn rear of the punch and parallel to itthere t is a tube or eyelet magazine, D, front and rear views of thelower end of such magazine being exhibited in Figs. 4 and 5. IVhile the machine is in operation the eyelets are arranged in such magazine, as shown in red lines in Fig. 2that is, one over the other and each with its flange Y uppermost. A rod, E, extends downthrough the eyelets and is supported on the top of the magazine by a slider or button, x. This rod serves to maintain the axis of each eyelet in conjunction or parallelism with that of the magazine-a matter of muchimportance to the` proper descent of the collection of eyelets, as\

circumstances may require. In connection with such machine I employ, an eyelet-separator, F, and an eyelet-carrier, G, they being arranged with vrespect tov it as shown in the drawings. The said separator is a curved bifurcation or fork projecting from a slider, d, and into the lower part of 'the magazine, and so as to span on its opposite sides the lowermost eyelet but one of the series of eyelets and raise and hold up the whole series, while the lowermost eyelet, resting on the carrier G ora notch, e, thereof, (see Fig. 6,which is a top view of the carrier,) is in the "act of being moved away from the series and deposited on the anvil. During each depression of the punch the said carrier G should be moved forward toward and over the anvil, the pin b in the mean time going down into the eyelet and holding it on the work-receiver a, in order that during the retreat of the carrier the eyelet may' be separated from such carrier.

A lever,'I:I, is placed over the slider cl, turns on a fulcrum, f, and is connected with the vpunch by a connecting-rod, g,which is jointed 2 saisi is also a third standard, Z3,.directly in rear of the standard Z. Furthermore, a spring, m, is applied to the rear o'f the carrier G and to the frame of the machine, the purpose of the said spring being to effect the retraction of the carrier at the proper time. Y

In the'operation of the above-described machine the punch is to be driven downward. Vhile passing down it will set the lever H in motion on its fulcrnm and cause the arm 'i to press against the standard Zand force the separator F forward into the magazine, and until the arm is lifted above the standard by the aetion of the inclined plane in which the arm may rest and move. This forward motion of the separator will elevate from the lowerinost eyelet all those above it and support them while the said lowermost eyelet may be moved forward to the anvil by the carrier G,whi'eh` will next be forced forward by the action of the arm h against the standard Z2. The arm 71. will continue itsaction on the standard Z2 until it may i be elevated above the same by the inclined plane on which such arm may rest,which having taken place, the spring m will be free to retract the carrier. `Vhile the eyelet is pass ing toward and over the anvil the pin b will enter Such eyelet and retain it in place over the anvil or onits stud or eyeletreceiver a. until the punch may compress the eyelet or setit into the material which may be on the anvil. During the upward movement of the punchjthe arm lwill be forced against the standard Z3, and will produce such a retraction of the separator F from the magazine as will canse the mass or pile of eyeletsto drop down- 2. The combination of the eyelet-magazine D, a separator, F, and a carrier, G, arranged and made to operate together substantially in mannerand under circumstances as described. 3. The combination of the eyelet and work receiver or pin L with the anvilB and the eyelet feedingand setting machinery.

' 4. The combination and arrangement of the eyelet guide-rod E `with the eyelet-magazine. i

OLIVER G. CRITOHETT.

Vitn esses DEXTER BUOKMAN, GILMAN AL BEANE. 

